I think I’m going to check out more of River City Girls 2 which I restarted last weekend. It got an update which makes it way more playable, I hadn’t played for months, but the input lag was excruciating before. Maybe some Mario Wonder which I haven’t played in a while (and still need to finish!).
What about you? What have all of you been playing?
Finished Crymachina!
As I mentioned on my previous comment this game has a lot of flaws, and I don’t know if I can call it good or recommend it - but it does have its fair share of charms too.
They did a really good job in making me care about the main characters and see them as a “family” - seeing Leben geting gradually closer to the others and Enoa’s growth over the game was great. The character designs are interesting, the OST is solid. The plot is a bit of a mess, with a LOT of crazy twists, but I still enjoyed it.
Combat is fun and flashy, and I never got bored of it while going through the main game. That being said, there’s a lot of extra content that I didn’t do, and I think that if I tried to go for full completion the repetitiveness would end up wearing me out.
Also, a minor thing, but I’m really annoyed that I didn’t realize before the endgame that you can equip the same gear to all three characters. Spent quite some time trying to find good setups without overlaps. :/
Playing Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights.
This “metroidvania” game has a very melancholic mood in all aspects - visuals, music and storyline. You play as a little girl who apparently is the last survivor of a line of priestesses, who goes purifying monsters in ravaged land while being protected by the spirits of dead warriors.
I always associate darker visuals and styles with Dark Souls so I was worried it would be another game going towards that direction, but this one is a lot less stressful to play - it can be fairly challenging and I already died quite a few times, but there’s zero penalty for that.
There’s some really good QOL features too - I like how a fast travel is unlocked less than 1h into the game, and I love that the map indicates if there are missing still missing items in a room. This is a particularly big deal because some of the rooms are huge and can take a long time to explore.
Anyway, so far I’m enjoying this one.
Have you played Crystar? If yes, how do you compare the two games. And if not, why not?
I have heard lots of good things about Ender Lilies, and now that it’s getting a sequel soon, I think I should try to play it too.
Have you played Crystar? If yes, how do you compare the two games. And if not, why not?
No I haven’t, and it’s because I had never heard of Crystar before - I only learned Crymachina had a “spiritual prequel” when someone on Mastodon asked me this exact same question.
Anyway, I have Crystar on my radar now, but from what I’m seeing it doesn’t share the sci-fi setting which is a bummer to me, that was one of the things that drew my attention to Crymachina.
I have heard lots of good things about Ender Lilies, and now that it’s getting a sequel soon, I think I should try to play it too.
Spoiler for next week’s post: It’s a really good game, but the difficulty spikes brutally on the second half of the game and it gets quite frustrating at times.
Ah, it’s spiritual sequel, I thought it was a direct sequel.
Well, I won’t be playing it so soon, so you can take your time with it 😀
